Jordan Peterson

Well, if you have a bit of a creative spark and you're being... and ideas are being revealed to you in concordance with your aim, and then you don't act on those, you punish them. You punish the source of the ideas. Just like demoralizing a kid. Like if a kid comes to you with ideas, and every time they come, you say, oh, that's stupid, or what the hell do you know?

Or you say, I'm going to do something about that, and then you don't. That kid will stop coming to you with ideas. And people do that to themselves all the time. All the time. And so you even have an obligation to your You can watch this, you know, this is what I've been trying to teach people too, is if you want to improve your life, it's like, well, set that as a name.

Or you say, I'm going to do something about that, and then you don't. That kid will stop coming to you with ideas. And people do that to themselves all the time. All the time. And so you even have an obligation to your You can watch this, you know, this is what I've been trying to teach people too, is if you want to improve your life, it's like, well, set that as a name.

Or you say, I'm going to do something about that, and then you don't. That kid will stop coming to you with ideas. And people do that to themselves all the time. All the time. And so you even have an obligation to your You can watch this, you know, this is what I've been trying to teach people too, is if you want to improve your life, it's like, well, set that as a name.

I'd like things to be better. And then ask, what could I actually do that would move me somewhat in that direction? You'll get an answer. That's a good way to pray. That's a good way to pray.

I'd like things to be better. And then ask, what could I actually do that would move me somewhat in that direction? You'll get an answer. That's a good way to pray. That's a good way to pray.

I'd like things to be better. And then ask, what could I actually do that would move me somewhat in that direction? You'll get an answer. That's a good way to pray. That's a good way to pray.

Well, that's part of that discipline striving. Like I learned when I first started writing, I forced myself to sit and write every day. And some days... I was highly productive, and other days I wasn't so productive. But every day, if I sat long enough, I was a little bit productive. And then I got better at being productive and much better at not delaying sitting down.

Well, that's part of that discipline striving. Like I learned when I first started writing, I forced myself to sit and write every day. And some days... I was highly productive, and other days I wasn't so productive. But every day, if I sat long enough, I was a little bit productive. And then I got better at being productive and much better at not delaying sitting down.

Well, that's part of that discipline striving. Like I learned when I first started writing, I forced myself to sit and write every day. And some days... I was highly productive, and other days I wasn't so productive. But every day, if I sat long enough, I was a little bit productive. And then I got better at being productive and much better at not delaying sitting down.

That took a long time, really years, to really get disciplined. I'm still learning that discipline. How long do you write for at a time? I max out about three hours. I find that if I write more than three hours continually, I get exhausted. So three hours is about right.

That took a long time, really years, to really get disciplined. I'm still learning that discipline. How long do you write for at a time? I max out about three hours. I find that if I write more than three hours continually, I get exhausted. So three hours is about right.

That took a long time, really years, to really get disciplined. I'm still learning that discipline. How long do you write for at a time? I max out about three hours. I find that if I write more than three hours continually, I get exhausted. So three hours is about right.

And I've learned tricks like at the end of the writing session, write down what you're thinking so you can use that the next day and do it every day and so on. And I've got to the point now where I can write a newspaper article daily. a good newspaper article, pretty much in one draft. But that's taken 35 years of writing to manage that.

And I've learned tricks like at the end of the writing session, write down what you're thinking so you can use that the next day and do it every day and so on. And I've got to the point now where I can write a newspaper article daily. a good newspaper article, pretty much in one draft. But that's taken 35 years of writing to manage that.

And I've learned tricks like at the end of the writing session, write down what you're thinking so you can use that the next day and do it every day and so on. And I've got to the point now where I can write a newspaper article daily. a good newspaper article, pretty much in one draft. But that's taken 35 years of writing to manage that.

But I learned early that if I sat long enough, I would write something that would be valuable, right? And some days it took like 45 minutes to get warmed up so that, you know, everything I wrote was just... painful to produce and not a very high quality. But if you persist, the thing that persistence, that's the other thing that's kind of interesting neurologically.

But I learned early that if I sat long enough, I would write something that would be valuable, right? And some days it took like 45 minutes to get warmed up so that, you know, everything I wrote was just... painful to produce and not a very high quality. But if you persist, the thing that persistence, that's the other thing that's kind of interesting neurologically.

But I learned early that if I sat long enough, I would write something that would be valuable, right? And some days it took like 45 minutes to get warmed up so that, you know, everything I wrote was just... painful to produce and not a very high quality. But if you persist, the thing that persistence, that's the other thing that's kind of interesting neurologically.

You know, I already said, if you punish the source within you that gives rise to ideas, it will stop producing ideas. So that's a bad idea. But It's also the case that you want to make being creative the victor over all the competing pulls and temptations. And partly what you're doing when you're disciplining yourself is that. It's like, no, I'm going to sit here